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Sunday, June 1, 2008

John Burroughs (April 3, 1837-March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and essayist important in the evolution of the U.S. conservation movement. According to biographers at the American Memory project at the Library of Congress, John Burroughs was the most important practitioner after Thoreau of that especially American literary genre, the nature essay. By the turn of the century he had become a virtual cultural institution in his own right: the Grand Old Man of Nature at a time when the American romance with the idea of nature, and the American conservation movement, had come fully into their own.

spring 2008Associety and Wired Heifer House build raised beds The raised beds sit on the Wired Heifer House fields just south of the family farm Burroughs was born at in 1837, his writing studio Woodchuck Lodge and his final resting place at Boyhood Rook.

Andes Sprouts Society

Andes Sprouts Society wishes to exemplify the Catskill Regions cultural heritage of the sprouting farm landscape as well as stimulate biocultural productivity for the new media global community.

Andes Sprouts Society engages in crossover activities of emergent technologies and organic farming. For this starting year, the AS society works toward the exchange of knowledge and labor of urban gardening and field farming, the sustainability of the land and the artists and the international perspective on eco-bio issues.